Saturday, January 9, 2010

Sorry, but I'm still waiting for approval from the powers that be on the chicken fingers video, but here's a little double dip of silliness from a clip I shot to test the video camera on the new Nexus One Google phone.

This clip has sparked a huge debate on my Youtube channel over the dos and don'ts of double dipping. Hopefully we can have the same heated discussion here. Some say the DD is disgusting, others say it's been proven you don't get sick from this party foul. What do you think?

42 comments:

i guess because we don't this dipping thing in the continent, never really thought about it. I can see the logic on why not doing it, but I reckon someone must have the worst desease of the world, or you must have a very bad inmune system to get a desease out of it I suspect.

However though, I'm very picky with my food, and the idea of droolage of others in my nomnoms is not good eats.

I think the word contaminate rather than "infect" is a better description, and as one of the comments on You Tube suggested, breaking it in half, then going for a dip with each of middle sections is a better choice than using the end where your fingers once were when making the second dip. Of course, using separate small dipping containers for each person is even better. The people that claim not being bothered because it's family are probably the same ones that turn their face when kissed so old Uncle John's or Grandma Rose's kisses land on a cheek, rather than their lips.

But what about your fingers leaving bacteria on the clean end? Is this like the 5-second rule for dropping stuff on the floor? Best to give everyone individual serving of dip then there will be no question. Great way to raise some responses!

DD ig fine there is more bacteria in the sauce then on the food u are probably dipping. When I eat food like this I dip the whole thing in the sauce to just about a millimeter to my finger. Really no need to DD after that, is there? LOL

i do it the same way as you, cj. dip, bite, flip, dip. completely proper, imo. i don't think your fingers coming in contact with the chicken will harm the dip at all. if we use that logic, we would all need our own separate bowls of chips, nuts, etc. at parties. one has to be subjected to some human contact, i believe.

Dip with spoon in it,plates to hold food an dip,don't single or double dip lmao,great post on honey mustard dip Chef,i have always loved the kegs dip for shrimp and you showed me what was missing the mayo lol,this is the same dip and its great i went to costco today an stocked up an we filling hot tub with it an gummy bears an um i not telling you what we doing next :)

Double dipping is the most heinous crime that one human being can commit against another. Your deceptive chicken finger reversal maneuver is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. It does nothing to eliminate the fact that a portion of chicken that has been in contact with your fingers is now in the dip. That's one step away from sticking your fingers in someone's mouth. You, Chef John, despite your majestic mustache and your manicured hand-model hands, have done the world a great injustice by releasing this video. You are history's greatest monster. Good day to you sir! I said good day!

I personally don't mind double dipping - whatever dip actually touches the chicken finger is going to stick to it and come out of the dish when you take it out, so the undesirable stuff isn't getting left behind....

... unless you're just that slobbery when you eat that saliva is dripping off your chicken fingers after a bite, in which case I don't want you anywhere near my dipping sauce for even a single dip.

Hi Chef John. I don't go too crazy about the DD since we tend to pick up tons more germs in shaking hands with others, but for technicality sake here are my thoughts: the first double dip is bad in social events--the second one 'may' be OK however that then depends on where the persons hands have been. If you have been shaking everyones hands or just visited the restroom--I dunno.

Best IMO with dips--provide a small spoon for a dip-dollop. You wouldn't use the same spoon twice in tasting someones food. I understand a lot of chefs taste--I prefer them to, however I prefer the chef who has oodles of new plastic spoons around to do so with. You are one of those, right?

Since we're talkin about OPC, or "other peoples cooties"--most people freak out about a DD yet there is the two things most never think or discuss about. First is simple--how do you grab TP off aroll--and not know someone else doin their thing has not already touched that roll or those end sheets. Hmm. Second--How often have people shared the same bar of soap with others? Most households tend to have one bar of soap in the shower/tub--its been 'everywhere' and yet folks don't think twice about it but just assume that 'its soap--its clean'...well think again. That is far more objectionable to me then a DD. Just some thoughts for this OPC topic. Can't wait for the chicken strip vid. Hope you are well and have a cheery day. :)

This reminded me of your seminal chicken wing eating tutorial. Yesterday, I was at a TGIF bar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and watched in disgust as some dude looked like he was attempting cunnilingus on a whole mess of chicken wings. Please keep doing the Lord's Work with your videos.

I think everyone is worrying about this just a bit too much. Let's all focus on solving health care issues or something (she says, inciting an argument about her insensitivity that leads to harsh words and eventually the break up of the party, where, you guessed it, she gets all the dip to herself!)

The worst instance of DD I have ever witnessed was at my house. I had just made some seared tuna for some friends. I put out some wasabi, and a some soy/wasabi/honey sauce for dipping. One of my buddies grabs a piece of tuna, takes a bite with the sauce and says how great it is. Then he proclaims, "Double dipping's fine by the way." and smears the bit end through the wasabi and into the sauce.... I don't make community plates when he's around anymore. That is just nasty...

The demo in your video is fine though. That is the way I have done it for years. To take the bitten end and smear it through a community sauce or paste though... (shudder) nasty...

Wendy & Annon - re double dipping - Those on the hill do it all the time. In the case of Health Care they're paid by big Pharma, or whomever. They get great gov't benefits, and their pockets lined! Now that's disgusting!

That's not quite what I meant. I was just pointing out that Mythbusters showed how double-dipped food didn't contain any harmful bacteria that wasn't already on the food to begin with.

There are a lot of beneficial bacteria that we need in our GI tracts, but in general we already have those there. There's no specific need to introduce more most of the time, and whenever you do need to, it's better to use something like active-culture yogurt (which has the right kind of so-called "probiotic" cultures in it) than the random junk from your friend's mouth and fingers.

But the random junk from your friend's mouth and fingers probably won't hurt, unless they recently had mono or whatever.

Yah o.k. I didn't really mean that we should lick our friends fingers or that double dipping was you know kosher, BUT, as you stated, it probably won't hurt you. It's just that people today are too germaphobic. My friend bleaches every single thing in her kitchen, they are the only people using it for the most part, and I think that it's just a little too obsessive.I'm not a double dipper myself, and I will tell others not to do it, but I won't refrain from eating a little ranch dressing if I saw a friend of mine double dip.I don't know about anyone else but I have yet to read a head line that says "Party goer dies from eating double dipped food" LMAO

@Anonymous said... Please.. Get a Life: "it's just i don't like when the saliva starts diluting the sauce". My God, how do you dip, you don't have too? Far more people are killed in a car crash on a daily basis, then that they are being killed by a DD event... And as allways... wash your hands!

If I have to double-dip, I always rip the food into segments--especially if it's something like a 5 dip breadstick. What would you do if you already dip your two ends in sauce and you're stuck with a dry middle. Problem solved! :)